United States v. Edgerton

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• allowing an initial stop even though the only reason the temporary registration tag was unreadable was because it was dark out
• acknowledging possibility that courtesy encounter between officer and driver might independently give rise to facts creating reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, thus warranting further investigation
• “once the purpose of the stop is satisfied and any underlying reasonable suspicion dispelled” the “detention generally must end without undue delay”
• “Where the historical facts giving rise to the stop and detention are undisputed, the only question is one of law, namely, whether the stop and detention, considered in light of the totality of the circumstances, were reasonable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).